Following on from an earlier illustration, I created this new wallpaper for Beyond. This time it centres around the phrase 'beyond your wildest dreams', so I created a weird, dreamy letter art design. I also used a minimal colour palette (which isn't as easy as it looks) and added a layer of texture.

Potter more asked me to create a graphic to commemorate one of the most popular characters in the Harry Potter universe: Draco Malfoy. Growing up with Harry during their years at Hogwarts, Draco truly lives up to his family name by taking every opportunity to oppose Harry. But in the end? Well, you should know how he turns out!

Another opportunity to create a graphic for Pottermore - this time honouring Dobby, the mistreated house elf of the Malfoy family. The quote comes from a defining moment where Dobby gets a chance to exact some payback on his cruel master.

This is a project I decided to do, partly to celebrate Beyond's 4 year anniversary, but mainly to practice at 3D model making.

My idea was to create a 3D object that represented how the company had grown over their 4 years - My first thought was to create a 3D ornamental sculpture - but I wasn't happy with the results and it proved problematic to print out. So, I decided to go with a custom Lego set.

The first step was to create the bricks - this was actually much harder than its sounds and it makes you realise how fine and consistent the tolerances are real Lego pieces! Building the model (in Google Sketchup) was relatively easy - the hard part was getting the sizes right to allow for the material when 'clicking' bricks together.

Next, the many many many attempts to print them out. Each time I'd have to adjust the model, or try a different approach to the print settings, with supports, without etc etc. Eventually, though, it all came together, and I printed them out in a few colours.

The interlocking worked well and the model could be printed at normal resolution without supports.

Wanting this to be as close to the feel of a real Lego set as I could, I then went about creating the box and instructions graphics, created in Adobe Illustrator.

With everything ready, I purchased some white lidded blank boxes, and had the slip-cover graphics printed at high res. And here is the finished results!

More work for Pottermore.com - this time a celebration of the birthday of Professor Sprout, the Herbology Master. This one was aimed more at social media specifically, so we designed it in a square. Love doing this one with more hand-drawn graphics - I wanted to give it an impression of being more like a text book entry. Great fun to do!

Another great opportunity to provide some work for Pottermore.com - this time showing some of the most famous Slytherins through the ages. Never knew Merlin was in Slytherin! This was used as part of Pottermore's House Cup, where fans vote & compete to get their favourite house the most points. The winner receives a prize - this time, my infographic!

This work focuses on Defence Against the Dark Arts, asking which of the cannon's Professors you would want to be taught by yourself.

This piece required more illustration, as it was calling out for 'portraits' of each of the characters. And it needed a darker feel (due to the subject matter) than the Cybil Trelawney infographic - so I went with a darker parchment and mixing some red into the colour palette.

I devised a style that tries to emulate the world of Potter, with elements of ancient and new working together. I did this with an ancient parchment background overlaid with vibrant colours and some contemporary illustration.